Events

The Biotechnology and Bioengineering Conference (BioTEC 2018) will be held on Saturday, November 17 at the University of Waterloo.

Attendees will get a chance to hear from industry professionals, top researchers, and start-up founders from Canada and the United States. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. For more details, visit www.uwbiotec.ca!

Application Deadline: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 @ 11:59 PM

Interpretable and Collaborative Deep Learning for Low-level Computer Vision

Series Information:

• Thursday January 10 - 12:30-2:30 pm – IP 101 and Commercialization 
• Thursday  February 14 - 12:30-2:00 pm – IP Case Study
• Thursday  March 21 - 12:30-2:00 pm – Copyright and Software
• Thursday  April 11 - 12:30-2:00 pm – Trademarks
• Thursday May 16- 12:30-2:00 pm - What’s next?  Panel Discussion

Events are open to all UW faculty, staff, students and post docs. Registration is required for each event to ensure there is enough Pizza and Pop for all!

Workshop are presented by WatCo and supported by the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB) and the Games Institute at the University of Waterloo.

Please join the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB) and the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) on Tuesday January 22, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Alessandro Olivo, Professor of Applied Physics with the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at University College London (UCL) speaking on “Origins, state-of-the-art and application perspectives of incoherent x-ray phase contrast imaging methods” [Poster ]

Workshop is postponed - University is closed due to weather

What you should know about launching a medical device technology start-up

Speaker: Dr. Aidin Taeb, Research Associate, CIARS, University of Waterloo.

Dr. Taeb will proivde a lab tour of CIARS following the presentation.

Series Information:

• Thursday January 10 - 12:30-2:30 pm – IP 101 and Commercialization 
• Thursday  February 14 - 12:30-2:00 pm – IP Case Study
• Thursday  March 21 - 12:30-2:00 pm – Copyright and Software
• Thursday  April 11 - 12:30-2:00 pm – Trademarks
• Thursday May 16- 12:30-2:00 pm - What’s next?  Panel Discussion

Events are open to all UW faculty, staff, students and post docs. Registration is required for each event to ensure there is enough Pizza and Pop for all!

Workshop are presented by WatCo and supported by the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB) and the Games Institute at the University of Waterloo.

Ethics in design and development: An overview

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Boger, Assistant Professor, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo.

Dr. Boger’s research focuses on intelligent technologies for enhancing the safety, health, wellbeing, and independence of older adults and people with disabilities.

Facilitator: Elisabeth Van Stam, Writing and Multimodal Communication Specialist, STEM Resource from the Writing and Communication Centre